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smashed up chocolate

It takes 21 litres of water to produce a small chocolate bar. How water-wise is your diet?

It's long been known that our diet choices help determine our carbon footprint. But do you know which of your favourite foods are the most water-hungry?

A landmark report confirms Australia is girt by hotter, higher seas. But there’s still time to act

The IPCC report says extreme sea level events that used to hit once a century will occur once a year in many places by 2050. This situation is inevitable, even if emissions are dramatically curbed.

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What’s made of legumes but sizzles on the barbie like beef? Australia’s new meat alternative

Australian supermarkets and fast food chains will soon be stocking a homegrown meat alternative that tastes and feels like meat and even sizzles on the barbecue.

robot playlist playing piano

Tech songs: Music you can do the robot to

With a little help from our social media fans, we've compiled a list of our favourite tech songs Shake your 'bot to these top tech tunes. ?

Home and array: Investigator shedding light on the EAC

RV Investigator has returned from the East Australian Current to uncover the latest data from one of our fickle ocean features.

Diabetes blood glucose testing kit

Rise of the nanomachines in the war on diabetes

How assembly line nanofactories could lower the cost of diabetes medication.

How do you mend a broken heart?

We celebrated World Heart Day with science and technology. In a world-first, a man in the US received a replacement aortic heart valve.

Our peeps (em)powering science at sea

This World Maritime Day, we look at women who (em)power the science on our research vessel Investigator.

Detecting online hate speech with graph machine learning

As technology advances and connects humanity at a scale never before possible, the spread and impact online hate speech is greater than ever before.

Top dog: stamping out yellow crazy ants

We’ve brought in the dogs to sniff out one of the world’s most invasive pests.

Itchy, scratchy and unironed: Life before our quirkiest inventions

Humblebrag warning! We're the reason you're not mauled by mozzies. And that you can put your money through the wash (not in the money-laundering sense). So how much do you know about our quirkiest inventions?

Monk seal lying on fishing net on a beach

Reeling in fishing gear lost at sea

We have produced the first ever estimate of commercial fishing gear lost in the world’s oceans.